The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-05-12
THE WORK DONE.
The Laws that Were Passed by the
Twentieth Legislature.
The Matters that Give Bread to
Our Attorneys and Employ
ment to Our Jud ges.

diminish the civil and criminal jurisdic-
tion of the county courts of Orange, Con-
cho Tyler, Greer and Mason counties, and
to conform the Jurisdiction of the district
courts of said counties to such change.
Chapter IA. 5. B. No. al. IA act
to diminish the civil jurisdiction of the
county court of Brazos county, and to
conform the jurisdiction of the district
court of said county to such change.
Chapter IS. H. B. No. 211. An act
10 amend articles 1904 and 1905, title SO,
chapter 4, of the revised statutes of the
state of Texas, to provide for preventing
certain animals from running at large in
counties and subdivisions.
Section BE it enacted by the legisa'
ture of the State of Texas: That articles
1904 and 1905, of the revised statutes of
The state of Texas, be so amended as to
cad as follows
Article 1904 If any stock forbidden to
run at large shall enter the enclosed lands,
or shall, without being herded, roam
about the residence, lots, or cultivated
land of any person other than the owner
Of such stock, without his consent, in any
county or subdivision in which the pro-
visions of this chapter have become oper-
ceding articles, the owner, lessee, or
person in lawful possession OF such lands,
may impound said stock and detain the
same until his fees and all damages occa-
stoned by said stock are paid to him.
Article 46O5-No animals shall be i'm
pounded unless they have entered upon
the enclosed lands or shall be found roam
ing about the residence, lots or cultivated
land of another, and whenever any stock
is impounded, notice thereof shall at once
be given to the owner, if known, and such
owner shall be entitled to their possession
upon payment of fees and damages.
Capter rs. s. B. No. 232 AN act to
amend article 1858, of chapter 3, title IL,
Of the penal code of the state of Texas.
Section BE it enacted by the legisla-
ture of the state of Texas: That article
$50, of Chapter 8, title II, of the penal
code of the state of Texas, be so amended
as to read as follows:
Article 358-If any person shall keep or
exhibit for the purpose of gaming any
canning table or bank of any name or de-
scrlption whatever, or any table or bank
used for gaming which has no name, any
pigeon-hole table or jenny-lind table, or
Line or ten pin alley, table or alley of any
Kind whatever regardless of the number
Of pins, balls, or rings used, for gam
ing, and such pigeon-hole table or jenny
lind table, or nine or ten pin
alley, table or alley of any kind whatever
regardless of the number of pins, balls or
rings used, shall be considered as used for
Gaming if the table fees, or alley fees, or
money, or anything of value is bet thereon
or shall be in any manner interested In
keeping or exhibiting any such table or
bank, or nine or ten pin alley, table or
alley of any kind whatever, regardless OF
tne number of pins, balls, or rings used
az any place, he shall be punished by a
fine of not less than twenty-five nor more
than one hundred dollars, and imprison-
ment in the county Jail for not less than
ton nor more than ninety days.
Chapter II. Fl. B. No. 256. An act
20 compel railroad companies to provide
double .decked cars for shipment of goats
sheep, hogs and calves, and to prevent
discrimination against shippers thereof
and to provide penalties therefor.
Section BE it enacted by the legisla
ture of the state of Texas: That all rail
road companies operating any railroad
or any part thereof, within the limits o.
this state, be and the same are hereby re-
nuired to provide cars with double decks
for the shipment of sheep, goats, hog'
md calves; that the said cars must bt
in every way as large as those now In USE
upon the respective railroads in this
states that the distance between the hoo
and the second deck shall be the same a
the distance between said second decl
and the roof; that the floor of said secono
deck shall be SO constructed as to protec
the animals beneath; and that said car
must be furnished by the railroad com
pany to any person who shall offer to shl
at one time hogs, sheep, goats, or calves
in carload lots.
Section PIT shall not be lawful for an
railroad company to charge more TO
shipping double-decked carload
sheep, goats, hogs, or calves, than l
charged for shipping a carload of othe
cattle or horses the same distance and Il
ne same direction; and any railroad com
panv that shall fail or refus
ID furnish double decked cars @
me dimension prescribed in tn
r.s,eding section, to any person VIII
nay wish to ship as much as a double
decked carload of sheep, hogs, goats c
calves, or shall charge more for shippln
p double-decked carload of sheep, hog
yoats or calves than for sh1ppln
= carload of other cattle or horses for th
same distance and in the same direction
hall be liable to pay to the owner
slipper of said sheep, hogs, goats
calves, the sum of five hundred dollars
Gquidated damages, to be recovered
any court of competent jurisdiction: Pr
yided, That if railroad com panies sha
transport sheep hogs, goats and calve
On single -decked cars at one-half tn
Price per car load charged for shippin
horses Or other cattle, then the penaltie
prescribed in this act for failure to Pre-
Tide double. decked cars shall be inopert
i've.
Section 3-The neat approach OF tn
close of the session and the great nun
Der of bills yet to be disposed of by tn
Legislature, creates an imperative publ
necessity, and an emergency exists &c
The suspension of the constitutions
rule requiring bills to be read on thre
several days, and said rule is so suspende
and this act placed upon it's third reat
ing and final passage, and so it is enacted
Chapter IS. Il. B. No. $50 An act
amsad article 1,512, chapter l, title 81, c
revised civil statutes of the state c
Texas.
Section BE it enacted by the legisla
ture of the state of Texas: That articl